Logger-file location (Newbe question)

[gucky]

Hello everyone,

since I'm starting to get a bit used to Android I wanted to write a little 3D application. For debugging reasons I need to get some messages which I tried to log.  (like this one: Logger.log("Translation: "+f.getTranslation())

My problem is, I don't know where the logfile is saved. I looked everywhere in my project (since it is not big I finished quickly) and after that looked in the documentation for a possibility to set my own path. Can you tell me where that log-file is located?

Thanks,
gucky

[Thomas.]

DDMS in eclipse is better and you can watch what does your app in realtime

[gucky]

Thanks for the answer but DDMS isn't working right. (It starts with an exception and won't show any data while the emulator is running) I believe you, that DDMS is more useful and I will try to get it running, but right now I could fix my problem just with the logfile.

Doesn't anybody know where it is?

[EgonOlsen]

You might as well try to run ddms outside of Eclipse. There's a ddms.bat in the SDK's tools directory to start it.

[raft]

this prints out the log to the console

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<android home>/platform-tools/adb logcat


[gucky]

Thanks to all of you. I where now able to do both.

[icarusfactor]

  Also, if you need to copy the debug file to a local filesystem
I use this command below so I can open it into an editor
and do searches etc..

Save log to file:
adb logcat > logfile.txt

Then open it in an editor:
gvim logfile.txt